MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Ben Hubbard and David E. Sanger @ NYTimes.com, Feb. 25
ISTANBUL — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran announced Monday that he was resigning, in what seemed a sudden end to the tenure of one of the Islamic Republic’s best-known figures abroad. Mr. Zarif, an American-educated diplomat who was an architect of the Iranian nuclear deal, announced that he was stepping down in a post on his Instagram account.
It was not immediately clear why he was quitting or whether his resignation would be accepted. In the post, Mr. Zarif said he apologized “for my inability to continue serving and for all the shortcomings during my service.”
His resignation announcement also was reported by Iran’s Fars News Agency. Mr. Zarif’s public resignation in a country where governance is usually conducted behind closed doors seemed to indicate escalating tensions between the country’s hard-liners and President Hassan Rouhani [....]
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Mohamad Bazzi Retweeted:
He retweeted this too, which Twitter's Microsoft translator translated as Al-Assad: "Arab leaders are printing relations with me with the aim of directing Iran from Syria ".. Khamenei:" The Arabs are cute. Give me a hug. .. ..
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/26/2019 - 3:06am
From the weekend:
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/26/2019 - 3:10am
The plot turns:
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/27/2019 - 9:03pm
The word "projection" comes to mind:
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/28/2019 - 6:13pm